illumined quotes

   God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

- Dag HjalmarAgne Carl Hammarskjo«  ld
  Va«  gmarken (translated by L Sjsy«  berg and W H  Auden as Markings,1964).